March+26-30

Hey Jamie- Sorry I started your page for you. I just wanted to mention to you (I forgot before we left) that the kids really really need a lesson on that bibliography page. A lot of them don't even know how to cite, and didn't even fill in the cite on the note taking pages correctly. I would say that you may want to do it with the kids, showing them where to find the information in their books. **I was thinking the same thing, I was going to work it into the lesson on Monday. Since we have the lab reserved I was going to teach it there and not in our classroom, hope that's OK. That's fine. While looking at the lesson, you may want to make sure there is a document camera in there, or set mine up in there to help show the students where to find all that information when looking in their books. ** =**Monday March 26, 2012:**= I would have the students writing down the citing on paper before logging in. Just think, if they log in, they start typing their biography and are not paying attention to you. Or they are playing around with the computer, not paying attention. But again, that decision is up to you. Just making you aware of the situations that could happen. **I see your concerns and i totally agree I will have them write it on note book paper first.** Hi Tiffany, I just want to let you know I have to pick a friend up from the airport so I will post revisions later tonight, just so your not waiting around. Have fun Tonight! That is fine. I'm not sure when I will be home tonight. I went ahead and in the student section pretended I was some students and placed some questions/comments I think you may encounter. Also, when you are working on the biography, I feel like you are spreading yourself all over the place - editing written drafts, editing typed papers, helping with the bibliography. Think carefully about how you want to set yourself up so that the students aren't pulling you in a million directions while in the lab. There is some editing you need to do on this document. =Tuesday March 27, 2012:= Jamie - On the lesson plan, can you list the timeframes when each group will be working with you and when they will be at their seats independently working. Make sure you are assigning enough work to the groups, and work based on the reading. (orange group does, but blue group does not)

Jamie- Since the aspiring leaders meeting isn't a mandatory meeting, I am going to say for you to stay in the room and focus on getting yourself ready for the day to teach. I know you have some things you needed to finish getting ready for health (also, just realized do you have that worksheet ready and are you putting it up here on the wiki?). Also, I would like for you to go into the computer lab, make sure you are familiar with the set-up, how to turn on and off the projector, see if there is a document camera, if not be familiar with how you are going to set up the document camera in there. We also didn't put out morning work for Monday, but I was thinking it would be nice to write Thank You cards to Centennial for inviting us to their performance. You can still come in at 8 if needed, but you do not have to be there until 8:20. **I was planning on coming in early, probably around 7:15, so that I would still be able to attend the meeting with you. Could we write the cards to Centennial as a warmup on Tuesday?** Sorry I think I got some things confused. So the 'safety warmup', are you intending that for morning work or for a warm-up for health?? I was thinking it was a warm-up for health. Also, and don't take this the wrong way, but I was thinking that since that meeting is optional, I'd rather see you spending time focusing on writing up your lessons, preparing yourself for TPAC and your action research (placing and practicing with your camera angles/set-up). I do believe you are doing the TPAC with the blue reading group and action research with the orange reading group. So any extra time you can spend really preparing those lessons and refining Part 2 of the lesson, it will help because I still didn't see those really refined in the top two lessons. I can always bring back any of the information I gain from the meeting and share it with you, that's not a problem. ** That's is not a problem about the meeting I understand. Also as I have been looking over revisions for Tuesday and think about how I can make TPA and action research the best they can be, I think it would be best if I did action research with the blue group and TPA with the orange group. For TPA it will be better that I can write about and reflect on a reading from its beginning to end. With action research either group could benefit from what I am doing, and I will be able to more easily integrate it into the novel, compared to trying to work TPA into the novel. I hope this makes sense :) One more thing, I'll do the worksheet as a health warmup not a warmup for the day definite misunderstanding there! haha **

= ** Wednesday March 28, 2012: Jamie - I'm so sorry I'm getting totally confused and mixed up between the groups for TPA and action research. I'm not supposed to be going into lengthy editing of TPA lessons with you - only putting input if I see something that is drastic to the learning of students. So really I shouldn't have put those comments on the lesson above, which is why I just deleted the lesson that I just edited for this day. ** = == **Not a problem! I totally understand, its confusing since decided to change it all up :)** TPA is with the orange group and i am focusing on fluency, more specifically expression. Action research is being done with the blue groups, the focus is BCR's and the RACE strategy. ==  (I can add these up, just have to be careful on feedback after the implementation of the lesson, sorry I freaked out there a little thinking I did something wrong)  Do you have the example BCR question(s) - I'm confused as to if you are introducing multiple BCRs here. I also added more to your lessons for Blue group for tomorrow that you may want to check out.

=THURSDAY MARCH 29, 2012:= =Jamie, I think you need to set more specifics about how you want the presentation to go, and specifically what you want the students to take notes on.= Tiffany, I cant remember what we decided. Should I be posting the orange group lessons? Yes post them. I will look over them and post anything that I am able to comment on. Just like I did above (see comment). Just saw you comment, here it is! I deleted the first document and added up the part that I was unsure about how to say, so it's up there and all good to go :) = Friday March 30, 2012: = Check the comments at the bottom. I wasn't sure if the students are just note-taking or evaluating their peers with a rubric??

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